Live updates: Trump tours the Fed with Jerome Powell in tow

President Trump on Thursday is taking a tour of the Federal Reserve with Chair Jerome Powell in tow. Powell and Trump walked side-by-side in hard hats. Trump was touring renovations at the facility that the administration has taken issue with.

The renovation has stoked calls for Powell’s resignation.

Earlier Thursday, two Senate Republicans called for a special counsel to investigate whether former President Obama helped an effort to undermine President Trump’s 2016 White House bid.

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are pushing for the appointment, saying they want answers about how Obama and his administration “manipulated” matters in the hopes of a Hillary Clinton victory in 2016.

It follows the White House’s Wednesday release of documents related to Russia’s effort to influence the 2016 election. That has prompted criticism that the administration is seeking a distraction.

The White House is attempting to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein controversy on multiple fronts, even as House Republicans joined Democrats to call for more transparency in the situation. Amid that, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Epstein’s alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in prison in Tallahassee.